The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-21
DISASTER 4! ! | { A {
MANY PEOPLE PERISH.
A Rotterdam Steamer Collides
With wit a Coal Vessel
And q Hundred and Thirty.two
Persons Find Watery Graves
In the Strait of Dover, in Full
Sight Of Land.
A%SCENE OF TERROR.
A#sCENE A. 4 J r'!s NJ OF TERROR. r.
Men, Women and Children Awak.
ened from their Slumber, 4,
Only to Meet Death by Drowning
or Violence. j'l

LONDON, Nov. 2O.-Ths Hteamer W. A.
scholten, Captain Taat, which LETT Rotter.
dam yesterday ior New YorE, was sunk
by q collision with the steamer Rosa
Mary, OF Hartlepool, at II o'clock lsst
night, ten miles of Dover. The scholten
carried a complement Of 230 pasaengeiu
and crew. 4.
The steamer Ebro, Of Sunderland, res
cued ninety Of the crew and passengers
and landed them at the Sailors Home,
Dover. One hundred and forty OF the
passengers are miaaing. One passenger
and a child of the party brought to Dover
were found dead from exposure. It is
hoped that passing vessels have rescued
tho missing ones.
The scholten's masts are visible from
Dover. Boats have left Dover bound in
all directions 10, the purpose OF saving life
aud property II possible. The Rosa Mary
Ia anchored of Ramsgate, with hor bow
stove. sSS'gag ,lyzi s5S..,Is &, q i7..,I
The WA. Scholtenlef Rotterdam Sat.
urdsy morning. AT the time Of the acei.
dent denss fog prevailed. The scholten
was struck on the port bow by the Rosa
Mary. Immediately after the shock was
ielt tho scholten's passengers, nearly all
Of whom had retired for the night, rushed
on deck In their night gowns. The boats
were promptly ordered to be lowered, but
It was found that only two were available,
The six others were useless, and were
not lowered. The water ruahed swiftly
through the hole in the bow, and i,5egt'l,
A TERRIBLE SCENE
ensued. The panic stricken passenpers
uttered piercing shrieks and many fell
upon their knees and prayed aloud. Lit
tie children clung to their mothers, who
themselves were shrieking with terror,
The officers were cool and self possessed,
and remained on the bridge to the last,
Several persons procured life belts and
leaped into the sea. Within twenty min
utea of the shock the echolten was en-
gulfed. All those who put on life belts
hoated and were rescued by the boats
from tho steamer Ebro, which cruised
around until four O'Clock in the morning,
Many Of the rescued lost wivoa, husbands,
brothers and sisters. The auryiyora wero
supplied with clothes and everything pos.
| sible was done to ensure their comfort,
The passsngers' accounts differ regard
/ ing the circumstancea of the collision, and
the reports of the Ulcers of the Scholten
clash with those of-the officers of the Rosa
Mary. Some of the passengers state that
the evenings merriment had ceased and
most OF the passengers had retired to their
bunks, only q few remaining in the 80.
loon, when Tremendous crash was heard
on the port boT. 1t is impossible that
the collision could have occurred
by the Scholten striking an an
chored vessel. The second mate Of
tho scholten reports that he was on
deck when he saw an unknown steamer
through the fog. Before anything could
be done the Scholten wss struck in the
fore rigging and port bow. The other ves.
eel, which he now preBumes Was the Rosa
Mary, backed off and disappeared. With
in twenty minutes the Scholtenf sunk,
Ehe Captain OF the Rosa Mary states that
his vessel was run into while anchored
southeast Of South Sand Head by an un-
known steamer. Finding that the Rosa
Mary waa damaged he proceeded to Dover
Roads, where the vessel ia now docked,
The Rosa Mary WAS laden with coal. "a T
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